Learning Visualisation:
(A story with a British background)

Let’s start with
the summary or the OBJECTIVE of this exercise:

SUMMARY:

It is not
important WHAT picture you have, as long as you have one.You can weave it
into a story, but you don’t have to. And
many/most/all of the pictures have
absolutely nothing to do with the meaning of the word to be remembered.

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You do NOT need to know the meaning of the word.

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You do need to have a picture.

See this story
in your mind’s eye:

Norman
Schwartzkopf (US General: Desert Storm) is just coming out of Buckingham Palace
and stormin’ (his nickname: Storming Norman) into a Harvey Norman shop, and he
is creating havoc in there.

He holds a plant
in his hands, and a girl called Janet is clinging on to the plant (you might
make certain elements in the story bigger or smaller, just as you see fit and
just as it seems appropriate to make it ‘unusual’).

And Norman gets
really mad, and starts throwing (maybe a bit like bowling) that plant – Janet
still on/in the plant – down a lane. And this lane has a plaster cast (just
like when you have a broken leg).

And now the lane
is changing into a Yorkiebar; all that lane so chocolatty: you can see the
chocolate, and you can smell it, and you (almost) can taste the Yorkie chocolate.

However now the
Yorkie bar is coming to life, like in a cartoon: with arms and legs and head,
and gets mad and rams into a Tudor house. The Tudor house
is in rubble, dust everywhere, and if you want: (like in a cartoon) the Tudor
house and Yorkie bar are fighting.

And out of all
that rubble steps your friend Stewart (or any famous Stewart: Jackie Stewart
or James Stewart or any Stewart/Stuart that you know). If really no
Stuart comes to mind: can you see a Stewardess? Have some fun with this one.

However this
Stewardess is in a bad state as she has the worst hang-over that you can
imagine. She is totally drunk; and she has a bottle of whiskey in her hand, and
you can feel this terrible hang-over.

But despite this
hang-over she tries to climb onto a surfing board, and she goes wind-surfing.

Now that was a
strange story.

However: I just
told you the British Royal Families from 1066 to the current one.

The names of the
Royal British Families are (starting in 1066):

Norman

Plantagenet

Lancaster

York

Tudor

Stewart

Hanover

Windsor

Let’s start all
over again:

Starting at
Buckingham Palace. Out comes Norman
Schwartzkopf: That is the first house: the Normans. Just to clarify:
Mr. Schwartzkopf has nothing to do with the Normans, however he serves nicely
as a picture. And that is what we want.

He holds a plant
with Janet on/in it: the next house is: Plantagenet. I admit: it is
written in a different way, however that is how it sounds, and that is good
enough to deliver a memorable picture.

He bowls this
down a lane that is in (plaster) cast: the next house is: Lancaster.

Which changes
into a Yorkie bar: the next house is: York. Now: the
chocolate of course has nothing to do with the Royal house, however, Yorkie is
very close to York, and therefore will do just fine as a picture.

This rams into a
house, a Tudor house. Voila, that the next family: Tudor.

Out of the
rubble comes either any Stewart/Stuart or a a stewardess: that’s the next
house: Stuart.

The next one is
a crafty one. This stewardess has a hang-over, which does sound like Hanover.
This is the next house.

And the
stewardess is still in the picture, as she tries a bit of wind-surfing; which
may sound like the current Royal house: Windsor.

SUMMARY:

It is not
important WHAT picture you have, as long as you have one.You can weave it
into a story, but you don’t have to. And
many/most/all of the pictures have
absolutely nothing to do with the meaning of the word to be remembered.